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Discussion: Professor Marcucci on Whewell's Idealism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Robert E. Butts
Robert E. Butts*
Affiliation:
Talbot College, University of Western Ontario
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Professor Marcucci's book on Whewell [6] is a comprehensive expository treatment of Whewell's philosophy of science. The work contains chapters on Whewell's theory of ideas, the fundamental principles of his philosophy of science, his views on mathematics and mechanics, and on his philosophy of induction and philosophy of discovery. In addition there is a chapter on the English reception of Whewell's thought. Professor Marcucci's notes are rich, both in references to Whewell's many critics and to nearly all of the extant literature on Whewell. Indeed, no full study of Whewell has as yet appeared that makes better or more extensive use of all the relevant literature on Whewell.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , June 1967 , pp. 175 - 183
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1967

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Footnotes

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This review could not have been written without extensive help with the Italian given the author by Dr. Jaroslav Havelka, Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario.

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